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The basic questions which every person, in every culture, in every age must ask provide a compelling window for declaring the hope that is found only in Christ.

It is the world’s great religions that have perhaps given most thought to the role played by the environment in determining identity and so—while seldom constructing places where we might fall asleep—have shown the greatest sympathy for our need for a home. —Alain de Botton, The Architecture of ...

From rabbits and Inklings to Kardashians and King, here are the year’s best reads according to CT’s editor in chief.

A Catholic University of America panel recently discussed some of the pitfalls of an increasingly secular mindset regarding spirituality.

The Big Chill, 40 years on, reveals a generation in all its (vain) glory.

Author and theologian Tara Isabella Burton says the urge to participate in spiritual practices hasn't gone away, it's just changed form.

An interview with author Tara Isabella Burton on the history of self-creation—and how the habit usurps our need for God.

What does Kim Kardashian have in common with Leonardo Da Vinci? Much more than you might have ever guessed, says Tara Isabella Burton, author of the new book…

On The Reason Interview podcast, author Tara Isabella Burton talks about how figures as different as Frederick Douglass, Oscar Wilde, and Clara Bow exemplify aspects of self-fashioning.

Since the Renaissance, we've been increasingly able to define who we are as individuals. But is that a false freedom?